A big, furry white dog named Enzo who was sitting on the back porch completely covered in snow, became an immovable object when his human called for him to come inside. Despite the cold, Enzo was happy where he was and with just one look, Enzo made it clear that he would not give up…

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Trent Mitchell (@trent_mitchell_) on Dec 6, 2018 at 12:24pm PST For his “Inner Atlas” series, Australian photographer Trent Mitchell captured absolutely stunning photos of free-spirited body surfers as they rode the waters and blended their bodies into the waves of the ocean. Amongst Mitchell’s subjects was…

Filmmaker Eva Cvijanovic has created “Hedgehog’s Home”, a wonderful stop motion animation featuring animals and their surroundings all made out of felt. Cvijanovic wrote and directed the film, but the inspiration for the tale came from a children’s story of the same name by Serbian writer Branco Copic. Hedgehog’s Home is an animated Film by…

Pliant Energy Systems in Brooklyn, New York has created the Velox, a legless, amphibious, serpentine robot that propulses itself upon wavy, flexible, ray-like fins that can skate upon the ice, swim in water and walk upon sand and snow with the greatest of ease. Velox can use several modes of locomotion found in the animal…

In the sweet Disney/Pixar animated short “Bao” by filmmaker Domee Shi, a lonely Chinese woman, who suffers from empty-nest syndrome, gets a second chance at motherhood when a dumpling she’s about to eat comes to life as a crying baby boy. The little dumpling fills up the woman’s quiet life, as it once did when…

Researchers Terro Karras, Samuli Laine and Timo Aila of NVIDIA have developed a generative adversarial network (GAN) AI that creates realistic human face portraits that don’t originate in real life. Instead, the generator views certain features, such as hair or freckles, are used as data points to help the AI intuit the rest. We propose…

How to spot a Dragon using an illusion spell. #dnd #rpg #tabletop pic.twitter.com/cw33WhcAKq — Grand DM (@Grand_DM) January 31, 2018 Dungeon Master Grand DM of Ultanya points out how to spot a Dragon using an Illusion spell.

Dustin Skye, an artist who specializes in bubbles, has quite remarkably built a small inverted fire tornado inside a 66mm soap bubble that somehow doesn’t break with the weight of the smoke and fire. An inverted tornado fire bubble created December 14 2018 Skye explains how he performs this trick in a helpful how-to video….

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